Seating capacity at Kochi U-17 World Cup venue reduced to 29,000

Kochi, Oct 4 (IANS) Even as all the four teams in Group D of the Under-17 FIFA World Cup have hit the practice grounds here, state police chief Loknath Behra said on Wednesday that the seating capacity of the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium has been kept to 29,000, taking into account security issues.

Behra, after an inspection of the stadium, pointed out that the maximum number of seats for which tickets will be given out would be 29,000 and then a maximum of another 2500 to 3000 people would be there including officials, police and others, as the total capacity would be kept around 32,000 in the stadium.

Behra also went around the stadium inspecting all the arrangements.

Incidentally all along those concerned with the conduct of the event here had said that the capacity would be 41,000 but now that has been reduced.